Comments on: World waits on Washington’s climate billhttp://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2010/04/30/world-waits-on-washingtons-climate-bill/
Global environmental challengesTue, 31 Mar 2015 16:20:39 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.3By: aubreymeyerhttp://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2010/04/30/world-waits-on-washingtons-climate-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-344919
Sat, 01 May 2010 07:10:10 +0000http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/?p=17109#comment-344919US commitment to a climate deal seems still – after fifteen years – contingent on it being ‘global’. This is not unreasonable as global-warming/climate-change is a ‘global’ problem requiring a global solution. In essence, how does the world agree to share what’s left.

Sine the Kerry/Lieberman bill does enumerate an emissions-contraction path for the US, this is therefore by definition a suggested ‘US share’ of the very limited emissions we can still safely cause globally.

It fits with – albeit loose – rates of the global Contraction and Convergence [C&C] of emissions that are needed by definition to achieve the objective of the UN Climate Treaty and which global proposal the US India China and the Africa Group broadly supported in the Kyoto negotiations to COP-3.